The ideal COVID-19 women (“She has a job that allows her to work from home. She continues to perform all that is requested from her. She volunteers to organise virtual happy hours. But not with Zoom because of the hackers. Some other service that has no ethical or privacy issues. It only took her seven hours of research to find. You should look into it.”)
What’s your dead author quarantine house? (Vanessa is #2, Lizzie is #1 so she can hang with Hunter S Thompson)
Cancel your Easter plans (lol): there are over 627 minutes of Adam Driver movies waiting for you to binge on SBS On Demand and we suggest you start with Frances Ha
Ann Patchett interviewed Reese Witherspoon for Vanity Fair and yes, it’s just as wonderful as it sounds
Tiny love stories
The Guardian’s Hadley Freeman on the joy of having the party zoomed to her laptop (“Seeing a colleague in their domestic setting feels almost as intimate as seeing them out of their usual work suit and buck naked: by day, he presents as a humourless tax expert, but now you know he lives in a home decorated with “World’s Number One Daddy!!!!” finger paintings.”)
This incredible essay on relationships and ambition and the power struggle of having it all will have you nodding fiercely ‘til the very end
This is not a drill: Pret has released the recipe for its secret dark chocolate chunk cookies
Last gatherings (“If I'd known that book club was to be my last gathering, I wish I'd savoured it more. I wish I'd appreciated the natural flow of in-person conversation, where everyone talks at a regular volume and I'm not distracted by my own image in the corner of a screen. I wish I could remember what music was playing, what the artwork looked like on the walls. I wish I'd asked to borrow some books.”)
These 47 photos of Keanu Reeves are guaranteed to stop you obsessively refreshing the Guardian live blog for at least seven minutes (tried and tested)
Yes, sourdough is excellent but sometimes life calls for thick slices of squishy white bread (egg mayo filling optional). Here’s a basic white bread recipe we’ve had excellent success with and bonus, no overnight rise necessary
If you’re not sick of thinking, cooking and reading about food yet, here’s an incredibly thorough list of the best food-related TV shows and movies on Netflix right now
This week we’ve been cooking… Ottolenghi’s orzo with tomato, feta and prawns, Jamie Oliver’s Tuna Nicoise (the dressing is crack), this beef and broccoli that Lizzie swears tastes just like Chinese takeaway, triple cooked roast potatoes, and a bunch of Rachel Roddy recipes, including this focaccia, her potato, courgette and rosemary soup, and this wonderfully comforting cauliflower cheese
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has released a recording from last year’s West End run of Fleabag and you can stream it from today (!!) with all proceeds going to charities across the health and arts sectors. Friday night sorted.
